ICON S Conference 17 – 19 June 2016 Humboldt University Berlin

versities? Who are the national authorities appointed
to implement the Programme? Answering all these
questions means understanding how public law can
transform boundaries and national diversity from a limit
into a starting point for the international development.
Beatrice Rabai: Universities without borders?
As already clarified in the joint declaration on harmonization
of the architecture of the European higher
education system (Paris, the Sorbonne, May 25 1998),
“Europe is not only that of the Euro, of the banks and
the economy: it must be a Europe of knowledge as
well”. The aim of harmonization of the higher education
systems has been realized through freedom of establishment
and recognition of diplomas and courses of
study. It represents certainly a determining factor in
the creation of a European area of democratic and
competitive knowledge, able to attract resources and
economic investments from all around the world. Selfreference,
defensive barriers, protectionist policies are
all factors of division in the unit, rather than cohesion
of diversity. This paper aims to analyze, through the
internal regulatory framework regarding the recognition
of foreign qualifications and the work of national
courts, the delicate process in Europe, with a special
glance to the Italian system.
the course of university studies and to the achievement
of binational degrees. The study will analyse the different
procedures to evaluate the quality of the research
produced in Italy and other relevant factors including
the capacity to attract resources to the degree of internationalisation.
Antonia Baraggia: Overstepping the boundaries
of national higher education systems: the role of
the CJEU case law
The allocation of competences between the EU
and Member States in the field of higher education
has been since the origin of the European Community
a debated issue. Even if the Treaty of Rome did not
provide an explicit reference to higher education and
even if the provisions of the Maastricht Treaty remained
vague on this point the CJEU played a fundamental
role in expanding the influence of the EU in higher
education matters and it contributed to establish a
sort of ‘education public law’. IThe paper will give an
overview of the role played by the CJEU in education
issues and it will attempt to shed light on the intersection
between education and internal market issues and
education and EU citizenship. Finally the paper will
reason on whether the CJEU case law has overstepped
the boundaries of EU competences or whether it has
interpreted correctly – even extensively – the Treaty
provisions in pushing educational integration.
Silvia Mirate: The Internationalization of the
Italian University System
The paper will explore the Italian recent regulations
and public policies aiming to the so called Internationalization
of University and the effective impacts of
public law in major cohesiveness through academics.
In particular it will deal with the different aspects of
Internationalisation concerning the system of teachers
and researchers’ mobility and the development of
international academic programs which are related to
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